Mikaela Shiffrin reached the summit of ski racing on Tuesday, passing fellow American Lindsey Vonn with victory in the giant slalom at Kronplatz to become the most successful female Alpine skier in World Cup history with an 83rd title.
Born in Vail, Colorado to ski racing parents Eileen and Jeff, the child prodigy won her first World Cup in Are, Sweden in 2013 as a 17-year-old high school student and went on to claim the first of her six season titles in slalom later that year. Experts said that if Shiffrin could stay healthy in the perilous sport, she could make a run at the record books and indeed her durability has been a key asset.
Shiffrin's first real taste of professional disappointment came at the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang where she was heavily favoured to successfully defend her slalom title but surprisingly only managed a fourth-place finish. She glided into the Beijing Games with enormous expectations heaped on her shoulders as she favoured to win gold in at least three events but stunningly fell in three races and left China empty-handed.
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